Bill. You can assign the periodical to a variable and call stop on it if you wish ..
EG. var myperiodical=new Ajax.Periodical...... myperiodical.stop(); // stops it ... All this is defined but IMO unclear in the documentation HTH Alex Mcauley http://www.thevacancymarket.com ----- Original Message ----- From: bill To: prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 2:31 PM Subject: [Proto-Scripty] Re: instanting and reinstanting a function: Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater david wrote: Hi Bill, Isn't it just an Ajax.Request that you need, because the periodical executer is used 'generally' without the need of a user click. I mean, in your exemple, it's like you start at the begginning the periodical updater, and after it reload every time there is new message the target DIV. But in your case, it seems that the call is done only once on a uxer click. So just use AJAX.Request, and on click launch it. The only think you will do is to manually update the div with the result of the AJAX call. no, actually I want the div to be loaded when the user clicks, and reloaded every minute it is visible. -- david On 15 nov, 15:36, bill <will...@techservsys.com> wrote: When the user clicks a link it executes this function: function fPendingMail() { //set the mail div to show document.getElementById ("maildiv").style.display = "block"; new Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater('maildiv', 'mail/pending_mail.php', { method: 'get', frequency: 60, decay: 1 }); return false; //inhibit the href } and the maildiv appears and loads a list of pending mail messages and all is good. When they are done the script executes document.getElementById ("maildiv").style.display = "none"; I know the div is still updating and I don't need it to so: 1) how do I stop the periodicalUpdater. 2) should I be de-instanting (whatver the correct verb is) the object so that when the user clicks the link again it will not just keep creating more instances of the Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater ? bill -- Bill Drescher william {at} TechServSys {dot} com -- Bill Drescher william {at} TechServSys {dot} com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
